02-12-2007, 04:14 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-NANDIBUM+Feb 12 2007, 09:22 AM-->QUOTE(NANDIBUM @ Feb 12 2007, 09:22 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->.....
The main problem starts beacuse of our excessive reliance on foreign authors and terminologies given by them , some of which even didn't come in contact with real people and our attempts to find their exact match in native population.
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Good point.
<!--QuoteBegin-NANDIBUM+Feb 12 2007, 09:22 AM-->QUOTE(NANDIBUM @ Feb 12 2007, 09:22 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->A better approach in this regard would be to take real indian people and see what were they called by other historians as Herodotus ,Procopius or Heuntsang.
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Now you are contradicting yourself.
-Digvijay
The main problem starts beacuse of our excessive reliance on foreign authors and terminologies given by them , some of which even didn't come in contact with real people and our attempts to find their exact match in native population.
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Good point.
<!--QuoteBegin-NANDIBUM+Feb 12 2007, 09:22 AM-->QUOTE(NANDIBUM @ Feb 12 2007, 09:22 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->A better approach in this regard would be to take real indian people and see what were they called by other historians as Herodotus ,Procopius or Heuntsang.
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Now you are contradicting yourself.
-Digvijay